Replying to list

[Derek Moss]

On 3 August 2012 21:24, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 3 August 2012 20:37, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 19:40 +0100, Derek Moss wrote:
>>>
>>> At the moment users have to cut and paste the list address from the CC
>>> field every time they want to reply to the list (using Reply All) and
>>> that does seem stupid and bound to lead to messages accidentally being
>>> sent privately instead of to the list.
>>
>> Why on earth would they do that? If they want to reply to the sender,
>> they hit the 'reply' button. If they want to reply to everyone, they hit
>> 'reply all'.
>>
>> You seem confused.
>
> The point is that on many lists using Reply replies to the list rather
> than the original sender.  On this list it is necessary to use Reply
> to All (since sadly gmail does not have Reply to List) which has the
> side effect of sending back to the sender as well as to the list.
>
> Derek, I would not worry about removing the original sender, just use
> Reply to All and let it go.  I believe that is the accepted practice.
>
> Colin

OK thanks, I'll do that then. I just thought it would be annoying for
the sender to receive the message via the list and directly.